"The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life."

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Edward Gibbon

#Opportunity Quotes #History Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.”
“I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I like women. I really like women.”
“To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.131, Crown Business
“Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.”
“When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.154, Kodansha America
“I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.”
“In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.”

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